Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-22

Chicago is importing Passover wine
from Jerusalem.
Last year loo clergymen went tc
enc New York theatre.
Minnesota is shipping wheat te
Europe via the Mississippi river and
New Orleans.
One ousce Of gold can be beaten
out so as to cover 100 sd uare feet OF
surface.
Nearly one-half Of the entire silver
product Of the world is now mined IN
the United States.
The Radical clubs oil London are
about TO issue All address on the
Queens Jubilee, protesting against
the cost Of supporting royalty, which
they estimate reaches the sum Of ST.
100000 u year
According to reports compiled by
the Methodist Episcopal Missionary
Society, the world contains 100000
900 Catholics, 170,ooo,0oo Mohamme-
dams, l1G,0o0,000 Professionals, 81
0Oo,0O0 members of the Greek Church,
100000 Hebrews, s56,ooo,0oo hca-
thens, and, we might add, 80 mug
wumps. - Times Star.
Do you know the latest wrinkle? It
is a modus opcrandi for getting the
better OF wrinkles. Ii is said TO be Il
positive preventive Of crow-feet and
corrugations generally. When wash
ing the face wash up instead of down;
then exercise the muscles Of tie ho-
low Of the cheek by chewing on bit
OF leather with the teeth closed.
Fifteen years ago, Jefferson Miller,
Of Jacksonville, Ind, while feeding
a threshing machine saw rat run
across the barn floor. In turning to
watch the rat he permitted his left
hand to be drawn into the machine,
and it was torn off. The other day,
while again feeding u threshing ma
chine IN the same barn, rat ran be-
tween his feet. He kicked at it and
slipped, aud his right hand was caught
and torn off.
The struggle now going on in this
country aud in other countries for
single gold standard, would, if sue
eessful, produce widespread disaster
in the end throughout the commercial
world. The destruction Of silver as
money, and established gold as the
sole unit of value, mush have a ruin
Gus effect on all forms Of property,
except those investments which yield
a fixed return in money. These
would be enormously enhanced in
value, and would gain dispropor-
tionate and unfair advantage over
every other species Of properly.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, SAYS:
"Ihe advocates of what is called the
gold standard maintain that gold is
better fitted to perform the money
function than any other thing in the
world, on account Of the steady in
trnsio value which it is claimed to
bear. 1t might be considered pre-
sumption in me--a rural inancier-
to attempt scientific definition OF
economic words and phrases, but !
venture the statement without dis.
cussing ii, that more senseless,
vague and Enmeaning phrase than IN
tiinsic value was never used in econ
omic discussion
A report is in circulation that
German chemist has invented new
kind OF bullet with which il is pro.
posed to reduce The horrors of war.
The bullet is composed of brittle
substance, and is designed TO break
on striking its victim and discharge
a powerful anesthetic, which does not
kill him, but reduces him at once to
state Of complete insensibiity war.
ranted to last for IL hours. 1t is
pointed out that while in this CON
ditlon the unconscious victim may be
captured and locked up before he
comes to his senses, aud whole
army may be handled in the same
way.
Professor Hayden of the Geological
Survey says that the geologists,
meteorologists and other scientific
men believe that the world is on the
eve ofan important change in climate
and other respects. ''The earth
quakes,' said he, ''along the seaboard
from Washington to Charles.on